Is MCP Already Outdated? The Real Reason Anthropic Shipped Skills—and How to Pair Them with Milvus

This post introduces Anthropic's 'Skills' feature as a complementary mechanism to MCP for AI agent tool orchestration. It explains how Skills use lightweight metadata for planning, significantly reducing token overhead compared to MCP's full schema loading. The post demonstrates a practical integration by showing how to build custom Skills that leverage the `claude-context` MCP plugin to interact with Milvus for semantic code search within the Milvus codebase. It provides prerequisites, configuration steps for the MCP service, and an example `SKILL.md` file for Milvus code search.